Denial of care has now reached the WEST COAST

Posted on May 13, 2015 by Pharmaciststeve

Modesto man with severe chronic pain can’t get prescriptions filled http://www.modbee.com/news/local/article20907534.html Miguel Perez, who has severe multiple sclerosis, lives with an unbearable pain few people ever experience. The 42-year-old Modesto man is prescribed four pain medications for trigeminal neuralgia, a rare condition causing such searing facial pain it is sometimes called the suicide disease. In […]

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When they try to protect the few and harm the many ?

Posted on May 13, 2015 by Pharmaciststeve

New measures of opioid utilization https://drugstorenewsce.com/editorial-news-item/9/5942 Jagoda Misniakiewicz 05/12/2015 The author is a PharmD, PGY-1 Pharmacy Practice Resident with the Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System  Prescription drug overdoses have increased dramatically over the past two decades and are contributing to significant mortality and morbidity. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services National Action Plan for […]

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Sometimes… you get more than you bargained for

Posted on May 13, 2015 by Pharmaciststeve

When a pill is poison instead of a cure http://www.whio.com/news/news/when-pill-poison-instead-cure/nmFPx/ Ali Schroer’s fight against illegal online pharmacies began in 2007, a year she seemed to have symptoms of a disease without actually having a disease.  There were intense headaches and stomach pains so severe that she eventually underwent a colonoscopy but doctors had no diagnosis […]

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What goes behind the closed door ?

Posted on May 13, 2015 by Pharmaciststeve

This showed up in my inbox today… according to their website.. they are a 10 yr old organization whose membership seems to be a lot of major players in the healthcare arena  http://pqaalliance.org/membership/organizations.asp  It appears that they are in the middle of a annual convention in Arlington, VA and voting on the following tomorrow…  I […]

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